Improved washing-machine



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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICEo D. n. sHEAEEE, on wEsT GROVE, AND cYEUs HAYNEs, cENTREvILLE,

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IMPROVED WASHINGeMACHINE.

` Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,398, dated May 27, 1862.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that we, D. H. SHEARER, of West Grove, in the county of Davis, in the State of Iowa, and .CYRUS HAYNEs, of Centreville, in the county of 'Appanoose and State aforesaid, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Making and Using Washing-Machines; and we do hereby declare that the following :is a full andexact description thereof,

reference being had to the accompanying drawing, andto the references marked thereon.l

The nature of our improvement consists in having two concave wash-boards and a convexed rubber composed of inclined slats a c with intervening apertures, so that the dirt may pass through wherever it is rubbed out, these wash-boards being connected at their lower extremities by three rollers, and under them a condensed-dirt chamber,into which the dirty suds drain, and from which they are drawn by a tube into a common bucket, and

having a small permanent zinc washboard in-l side of the tub at the top, which may be used for handrubbing.

lIhe construction of the machine is as follows: C is a semicircular rubber, which is `formed by screwing inclined slats a, a to the outer periphery of two solid heads, c c. In the center of the rubber is secured a handle, D, connected to the rubber by means of the crosspiece E. F is a small shaft,which forms bearings for the rubber C. G G are two concave wash-boards connected by three rollers, H H;

I I, the outer inclosure of zinc; N N,end pieces 

